Face of Nation : Alexandra Krawczyk was paralyzed by fear after her billionaire parents, Barry and Honey Sherman, were murdered. “I couldn’t leave my home for months because I was too scared,” Krawczyk says.
She’s still afraid, knowing police have yet to make any arrests in the shocking case. But she refuses to let it deter her from ensuring the community projects in which her parents invested millions will keep going.
“We don’t know where the next target is, right? It’s an alarming situation, and I feel that I do have to be on guard. But that’s not going to stop me from doing important work.”
The deaths of the high-profile billionaire couple in December 2017 in their home in north Toronto attracted international attention.
Since the murders, Krawczyk and her siblings have stayed close to each other and out of the public eye. Krawczyk herself is reserved by nature and has avoided speaking to the media since the murders, but she agreed to sit down with CBC’s The National recently.
She says she continues to worry about her personal safety and the safety of her family as police hunt for leads in the killings. Outside investigators have also been conducting a parallel investigation.
But while the progress of the search for the killers has been slow, Krawcyzk says she and her siblings have been making strides to ensure Barry and Honey’s philanthropic commitments don’t falter.
Among those efforts, they formally launched The Sherman Foundations earlier this year to help oversee projects her parents had begun.
“There’s so much work that’s still yet to be done and the foundations have such a big potential to make a difference, so this to me is a big responsibility,” says Krawczyk. “My dad was always saying that with wealth comes responsibility, and I understand that now.”
